[USA Today] took on 15 of President Trump's claims he made during his first State of Union speech. On some points, he was completely accurate. On others, he exaggerated or misstated some key facts. Here's how they broke down:

On approving more drugs and medical devices than ever:

President Trump rightly congratulated the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday night for approving more new and generic drugs and medical devices than ever during his first year in office. The accomplishment should help "fix the injustice" of high drug prices, which Trump said will be one of his top priorities for the year. The likelihood that Trump will achieve the substantial drops in prices he vowed is uncertain. He faces considerable hurdles. Not the least of these is the well-funded and powerful drug lobby that has sent more than a few of its members to the Trump campaign and administration.

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the White House he opposes release of a classified Republican memo alleging bias at the FBI and Justice Department because it contains inaccurate information and paints a false narrative, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The FBI came close to publicly opposing the memo’s release, saying in a statement Wednesday that it has “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

“He cheats like hell ... so I don’t quite know how he is in business,” said Pettersen. “They say that if you cheat at golf, you cheat at business. I’m pretty sure he pays his caddie well, since no matter how far into the woods he hits the ball, it’s in the middle of the fairway when we get there.”

The FBI inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 US presidential election has been given a second memo that independently set out some of the same allegations made in a dossier by Christopher Steele, the British former spy.

The second memo was written by Cody Shearer, a controversial political activist and former journalist who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s.

Unlike Steele, Shearer does not have a background in espionage, and his memo was initially viewed with scepticism, not least because he had shared it with select media organisations before the election.

Donald Trump gave his first interview to a UK journalist on Sunday, while he was attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In a wide-ranging, but generally friendly interview, the US president gave his views on climate change.

Once again, Trump did not seem to be aware of the facts before opining to British broadcaster Piers Morgan.

"The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records," he said.

TVNL Comment: It is so dangerous to allow a total moron to hold the office of President. So very dangerous....

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved to extend surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page shortly after assuming office last spring, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with a secret Republican memo.

The extension shows the Department of Justice, under President Donald Trump, saw reason to believe that Page was acting as a Russian agent, the paper reported on Sunday.

The memo paints the investigation into Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. presidential election as tainted from the start, the paper said.